Lead Software Engineer Jobs in Houston, TX
Lead Software Engineer jobs in Houston are concentrated across the Energy Corridor, Downtown, and Greenway Plaza, with strong demand in energy technology, healthcare IT, and aerospace software. Employers actively hiring include JPMorganChase, Intuitive Machines, and Tissa. Scan the live roles below and apply to whichever ones fit.
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Responsibilities
The Data Engineer owns the reliable flow of data from Hexagon's source products into the Octave platform's Microsoft Fabric lakehouse. This role is responsible for building and operating the connectors, pipelines, and staging infrastructure that ensure every downstream capability — from ontological transformation to knowledge graph construction — has high-quality, timely, and trustworthy data to work with. The Data Engineer is the first and most critical link in the platform's data supply chain.
- Design, build, and operate data integration pipelines connecting Hexagon source products (Sequence/EcoSys, Loop/Smart Materials, Forte 3D, Attune/EAM) to the Fabric lakehouse
- Implement and maintain database mirroring configurations for SQL Server and Oracle source systems, ensuring near-real-time replication with schema change detection
- Configure and operate Databridge Pro (DBPro) as a middleware integration layer where direct mirroring is not viable — API adapters, event streams, and scheduled extracts
- Enforce the staging discipline: land data in its original form in the lakehouse Bronze layer before any transformation, minimizing logic in extractors and enabling replay
- Build and maintain the change-data-capture (CDC) infrastructure to track record-level changes over time — a prerequisite for temporal queries and the Delivery Genome
- Own pipeline observability: monitoring, alerting, lineage tracking, and data quality checks at ingestion time
- Collaborate with the Graph Engineer on schema understanding to ensure ingested data maps cleanly to ontological transformation requirements
- Work with the Governance function to implement data classification, access controls, and audit-ready lineage at the pipeline level
- Contribute to the no-code pipeline capability within Platform Studio's data engineering tool, informing what connectors and patterns should be productized
Education / Qualifications
- 4+ years in data engineering, with hands-on production experience building and operating ETL/ELT pipelines at scale
- Strong proficiency with Microsoft Fabric or Azure Synapse Analytics — Delta Lake, lakehouse architecture, and Spark-based transformation
- Experience with database mirroring or CDC for SQL Server (e.g. Fabric Database Mirroring, Debezium, SQL Server replication) and Oracle
- Hands-on experience with REST API integration and OData/OpenAPI-based data extraction
- Solid understanding of medallion/lakehouse architecture patterns (Bronze/Silver/Gold or equivalent staging discipline)
- Experience with pipeline orchestration tools (Azure Data Factory, Fabric Data Workflows, Airflow, or comparable)
- Proficiency in Python and/or PySpark for transformation logic and notebook-based ETL
- Strong data quality mindset — schema validation, null handling, deduplication, and monitoring at ingestion
- Familiarity with enterprise authentication patterns (OAuth2 client credentials, service principals, managed identities)
Preferred:
- Experience with Databridge Pro or comparable industrial middleware integration products
- Background in capital projects, EPC, or industrial enterprise software data models
- Exposure to knowledge graph construction pipelines downstream of lakehouse staging
About Octave
Octave provides mission-critical software that empowers organizations to make informed decisions across every stage of the asset lifecycle - Design, Build, Operate and Protect - where performance, safety, and reliability are non-negotiable and failure is not an option.
Turning complex operational data into actionable intelligence, Octave connects expertise, real-world conditions and enterprise-scale insight to improve performance, resilience and incident response where it matters most.
Octave has more than 7,000 employees in 45 countries. Learn more at octave.com and follow us on LinkedIn.
Why work for Octave?
All in. Always forward. That's the way we do things around here. We put trust in our people because we believe it's the best way to unleash potential, bring ideas to life, and keep moving ahead. And it's why we're committed to creating an environment that's truly supportive, providing you with the resources you need to support your ambitions, no matter who you are or where you are in the world.
Everyone is welcome
At Octave, we believe that diverse and inclusive teams are critical to the success of our people and our business. Here, everyone is welcome. As an inclusive workplace, we don't discriminate. In fact, we embrace differences and are fully committed to creating equal opportunities, an inclusive environment, and fairness for all.
Respect is the cornerstone of how we operate, so speak up and be yourself. You're valued here.
Recruitment Fraud Alert
Octave posts all official job opportunities on either https://careers.octave.com/ or https://www.octave.com/about/careers and communicates only from email addresses ending in @octave.com. We never request payment or personal banking information during recruitment. No offers will ever be extended without a proper interview via Teams or in person, never done over email alone. If you suspect fraud, it probably is, and contact us at careers@octave.com
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Who's Hiring
- JPMorganChase100

- Intuitive Machines23

- Tissa12
- Octave Intelligence12O
- SLB6

Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software
Lead Software Engineer Jobs in Houston: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a lead software engineer job in Houston?
Target Houston's strongest hiring sectors: energy technology companies modernizing legacy infrastructure, Texas Medical Center health-tech vendors, and aerospace and defense contractors near Clear Lake. Roles concentrate in the Energy Corridor, Downtown, and Midtown. Candidates who stand out combine full-stack or cloud architecture experience with domain knowledge in one of those industries, plus a demonstrable history leading small engineering teams or driving technical decisions end to end.
Which companies hire lead software engineers in Houston?
Houston lead software engineer roles are posted by JPMorganChase, Intuitive Machines, and Tissa and others right now, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of September 2026. Houston's employer mix skews toward energy majors and their technology subsidiaries, large hospital systems with in-house engineering, and mid-size SaaS companies serving industrial clients.
Are there remote lead software engineer jobs in Houston?
Yes, though remote availability depends heavily on the employer type. About 57% of lead software engineer openings tied to Houston are remote or hybrid as of September 2026, with hybrid arrangements more common than fully remote. Energy and defense firms tend to require on-site presence, while SaaS and health-tech employers in the area are more open to distributed engineering leadership.
How can I get a lead software engineer job in Houston with little or no experience?
The most realistic path is targeting associate or mid-level software engineer roles at Houston's energy-tech companies or Texas Medical Center vendors, where team sizes are large enough to promote internally into lead positions. Building experience with cloud platforms and CI/CD pipelines is especially valued locally. Houston also has a growing startup scene in Greenway Plaza and EaDo where early engineers take on lead responsibilities sooner than they would at large enterprises.
Which industries hire the most lead software engineers in Houston?
Houston lead software engineer roles concentrate in Technology & Software, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of September 2026. Houston's position as the energy capital of the U.S., combined with one of the largest medical complexes in the world and a significant aerospace presence near NASA's Johnson Space Center, drives sustained demand for senior engineering leadership across those sectors.
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